Posted on 09/08/2006 8:23:41 AM PDT by Republicain
Seventeen people have been arrested in Belgium for allegedly planning attacks aimed at "destabilising" the country's institutions, Belgian prosecutors say. Police raided army barracks and soldiers' homes across the country.
The raids were part of a two-year investigation into extreme-right activists believed to be operating inside the military.
Police seized weapons and a home-made bomb during raids in East Flanders, Limburg and Antwerp.
Searches were carried out simultaneously in five barracks and at 18 private addresses in a wide-ranging operation, Belgian radio reported.
Those arrested were mainly "soldiers and people with an extreme-right ideology who clearly express themselves through racism, xenophobia, Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism", the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The main suspect is a serving military man "who intended to put terrorist ideas into practice," it added.
Belgium has seen an increase in apparently race-related crimes and the country's far-right, anti-immigrant Vlaams Belang party (or Flemish Interest) has enjoyed increasing electoral support.
This happens in cycles. Sometimes the Flemish crack down on the Walloons and sometimes it's the other way around.
Eventually with Global Warming this whole bunch will slide into the sea and we'll never hear of them again.
All in all, though, finding a Nazi in Belgium really isn't news.
The liberal "French" part of Belgium has been at war against the more conservative "Dutch" of Flemish part of Belgium for several years now. The Flemish people are sick of the French rule of Belgium. You may even see a separation of Belgium sometime in the future.
Godwin's Law in play. Thread finished at comment #2.
Well, it is good to see tat they are tracking down the REAL terrorists.
Ugh...
Hmmm.... it's hard to find many US MSM outlets picking up on this story, you'd think they'd be all over any suggestion that there could be right-wing terrorists afoot....
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